Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-19
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
A Bogus Letter from ParneII Pacify-
ing Egan for DenOuncing the
Phoenix Park Murders.
The Editor OF the Paper Printing the
SANDER Will Have to Answer Be-
fore the House of Commons.
The Epistle Stamped Forgery on its Face.
steamer Tasmania Stranded of
the Island OF Corsica.
Ireland.
ALETTER FROM PARNELL,

LONDON. April 18.-The Times as
serted, at the conclusion of an article on
Parnellsm and crime, that it had further
documentary evidence. To-day it prints
the fac smile of letter signed by Mr..
Parnell and supposed TO have been ad-
dressed to Egan to paCify his subordi-
mates, when Parnell publicly denounced
the Phoenix Park murders. The letter,
which is dated simply l5-5-8, without
an address, is rs follows:
"DEAR SIR--I am not surprised st your
| friends anger, but he and you should
| know that to denOunCe the murders is the
only course open to US. To do that
promptly, plainly is our best policy F.;
but you can tell him ard all others con-
cerned that though I regret the accident
of Lord Cavendish's death, l cannot re-
| fuse to admit that Burke got no more
than his deserts. You are at liberty to
show him this and others whom you can
trust also, but let not my address be
known. He can write to the House OF
! Commons.n
The Times says: ''Mr. Parnell cannot
expect that the simple Reputation of the
letter will have any weight with public
opinion. He must bring more solid
proofs to annul the effect OF the dis
CIosure.''
MAGISTRATE FIRED UPON.
CORK, April 18.-Magistrate Hegardi,
while returning to Mil street from 8
meeting of the Defense Union to-day, wa
fired at from behind hedge and was
wounded in the head aud shoulders with
buCkshot. Hegardi is unpopular and has
been vigorously boycotted. No arrests
have been made in connection with the
affair.
ANTI-COERCION DEMONSTRATION.
DUBLIN, April l8.-At Limerick yester-
day 60, coo persons Joined in GtmOnstra-
ton against the coercion bill.
PARNELL DENIES THE LETTER.
LONDON, AUriI 18.-Regardiug the
alleged Parnell letter, the Pail Mall
Gazette says: UutiI the authenticity o.
the letter shall be absolutely proved,
there viii be no need to discuss its con
tents.
TIE st. James Gazette says: The let
ter is SO grave a document that it will
not do to regard it as genuine until Mr.
Parnell shall be heard from concern
Ing it.
The Parnefffees all declare the letter an
Infamous concOction and deliberate in
ventlOn to publicly Islander the leader of
the home rule party. They say that even
in the low ground Of expediency, ParnelI
would be the last man in the world to
write letter containing such damaging
admissions. They contend, therefore,
that all reason in the case proves the letter
to be forgery on the face of it, pointing
for proof to the contents of the
document, specially to the writer's warn
ing the person to whom the letter
purports to be written not to disclose
mis- address, while no address is given.
The fact that the signature is the only
portion of the letter in Parnell's writing
is, by itself, the home rulers argue, proof
that the whole thing is a fraud, as, &C
cOrding to them, while it would be diff
cult to obtain enough specimens of Par
nell's handwriting to enable the forger to
initiate it to the extent necessary to sue
cessfully palm off the whole letter as lis,
it Is not at all difficult to obtain his sig
nature. Mr.. Parnell has authorized the
agent of the Associated Press to state
that he will emphatically deny that he
wrote the letter. Parnell will make his
denial in the House of Commons. The
editor of the Times will be summoned to
the bar of the House of Commons to ex-
plain the authorship of the letter.